The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!

No nation is wise enough to rule another.

The woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good.

For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way. I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better, I trudge on, I gain a little, I feel encouraged, I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory. One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud, the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire.

Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals.